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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1908
Page
4
Hon. H. D. Flood of Virginia promotes a government plan to provide slackwater navigation for the James River. The proposal, favored by Mr. Blaine for national unity, could bring enormous benefits to Virginia if successful.
A Petersburg Index Appeal quotes Dr. Edward Everett Hale urging editors to simplify and trim. It warns that many readers skim headlines and forget details, stressing the need to avoid flooding papers with useless gossip and to value the waste basket’s place.
Publication details reveal the Winchester Evening Star and The News Item consolidation in 1907. It lists daily circulation and subscription rates by mail and carrier with annual, semiannual, and quarterly options. The notice emphasizes honest advertising standards and that the paper is the sole daily in Winchester.
The Yukon legislature contemplates abolishing saloons while a Yukon City dispatch questions the reality of such reports. Three-fingered Jack McCaffrey gets 30 days hard labor for running a dance hall as temperance rhetoric clashes with frontier glamour and the lure of gold in a land of ice and night.
Editorial notes that John D. Rockefeller offers 1000 toward a memorial to Joel Chandler Harris in Atlanta only if the city raises 49000 more. The piece compares this to Carnegie library philanthropy and critiques the conditional donation.
A report notes Atlanta could fund a Carnegie library memorial without Mr Hotkefelier’s $1000. Danville announces a joint debate between Harry St George Tucker and Wyndham R Meredith on Mr Meredith’s Democratic withdrawal to back Taft. The Richmond grand jury indicts Mrs Ethel Gaylord for the murder of Baby Vaughan at the City Home, with earlier secrecy around the crime and a probe led by local papers.
Miss Rosa Hable spends weeks at Atlantic City while Miss Elimbeth Babylana of Washington stays at the Winchester Inn. Various locals including Claude Ryan of this city, a Maine crew member, and travellers Mr. Floyd Finghes, Mr. William Trover, and Mrs. Augusta Collins are noted at hotels. Friends and relatives visit in Leesburg, Shepherdstown, Baltimore, Lexington, Capon Springs, and nearby towns, with several returning home after short stays.
The article reports that a Winchester man, Mr. Rosenmyer, committed suicide after distress over a relative's death in Germany. He was a known business figure, with a history of timely payments and recent settlements with wholesale firms. His 86-year-old father resides in Germany, and Rosenmyer belonged to local fraternal organizations. He left a letter to his father and reportedly acted after hearing of his cousin’s death abroad.
Miss Annie Pence of Forestville Shenandoah county swallowed carbolic acid last week and died on Friday. She was conscious at intervals but refused to reveal her motive. Aged 20, she leaves parents two sisters and three brothers.
The sale offers one third cash on day of sale and balance in equal annual installments. Deferred payments shown by two purchaser bonds payable in one and two years with interest from March 1 1909. Bond payments secured by deed of trust and insurance on buildings. Purchasers may pay full price in cash if desired.
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